In short, laziness is what's stopping me.

However, I don't want to imply that my posts would at your level, even if I really applied myself.

Once I get some writing projects done at work, I might be freed up to make more of an investment in my writing at SN.

I think that's right, but it's not even a matter of gaming.

I don't think @Natalia or @davidw are gaming anything, they just both make really high-quality posts that most of us are not going to match.

Over the course of a month, the top posts are almost guaranteed to be theirs (and a few other people's), but on any given day the rest of us can manage to get in there.

I think a lot of the early excitement about social media was the idea that we could share our personal lives with each other and watch each other's kids grow up.

It took a little while for reality to set in.

This was one of the points I made about MSM, too.

Day-to-day, any of us can have top comments, or even posts, and get some decent rewards for that.

However, over the course of an entire month almost all of the top posts will be from the same authors and the rest of us get our contributions minimized.

I posted a link to a related Mises article, yesterday: #543330

I think UBI is very interesting from an economic analysis standpoint, but saying it will be necessary is nonsense on stilts.

If he had said "AI might make a UBI feasible.", then I'd have a different reaction.

Well that's what I have an existence proof for, but good economists don't try to argue with people's goofy preferences, they just take them at face value and move on.

Sometimes a pen is more than a pen.

Not good ones

You're in good company:

“I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.” -Richard Feynman

I didn't take any astrophysics and I actually think Relativity is quite a bit weirder than Quantum Mechanics.

My area focus was atmospheric physics.

I love it.

I've been making heavy use of the custom zaps lately. I had forgotten that it stores a few of your recent zap values. My numbers aren't that distinctive, though.

Default: 21 Double-click: 42 Stored value 1: 69 Stored value 2: 420

It would be nice to have some classier numbers, but these are what the culture has settled on.

I studied physics in undergrad and switched to econ a few years after graduating.

I'm a little nervous about it, but they only have about 5 players left and they've all logged heavy minutes. It just seems like a lot could go wrong for them.

If they win, it will be one of the all-time gutsiest performances. I'd love to see the Celtics get beaten up by these guys.

I did. I don't like the look of that Josh Hart injury and I liked the odds for Indiana a lot more.

Shai was so close to having one of the all-time game saving blocks.

This was the first piece of my first Nitro parlay. I need Indiana to win tomorrow.

Oof. I would hope that could be gig work.

One of the best finishes I can recall.

There should be plenty of highlights

I think a lot of that is environmentalist propaganda, but I'm certainly open to being wrong on this.

The reason I ask about the comparison to coal is that fracking made natural gas and oil so cheap that a lot of coal production stopped being economical. For the same reasons, it reduced the amount being produced in countries with worse environmental standards than the US.

It's hard to say what the net environmental impact is.

Is it worse than coal mining?

I skipped ahead, because the audio was all screwed up. Looks like we're coming right down to the wire.

Kyrie being Kyrie (in the good way)

That oil gets transported down to the refineries near the Gulf of Mexico. I believe they've been exporting oil from there since the fracking revolution.

I think the point is that the US has generally been importing more oil than it's been exporting.